Joel Deshaye

The Metaphor of Celebrity (eBook, PDF)

Canadian Poetry and the Public, 1955-1980

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Produktbeschreibung

The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry.

DeshayeJoel:

Joel Deshaye is an academic projects manager at McGill University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442666160
• Artikelnr.: 48945392

Autorenporträt

By Joel Deshaye

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Metaphor of Celebrity
2. The Era of Celebrity in Canadian Poetry
3. Becoming “Too Public” in the Poetry of Irving Layton
4. Fighting Words: Layton on Radio and Television
5. Recognition, Anonymity, and Leonard Cohen’s Stranger Music
6. “I like that line because it’s got my name in it”: Masochistic Stardom
in Cohen’s Poetry
7. Celebrity, Sexuality, and the Uncanny in Michael Ondaatje’s The
Collected Works of Billy the Kid
8. “A Razor in the Body”: Ondaatje’s Rat Jelly and Secular Love
9. The Magician and His Public in the Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen
10. Passing and Celebrity in MacEwen’s The T.E. Lawrence Poems
Conclusion: Public, Nation, Now
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Four Tables (fig. 1-4)
Works Cited
Notes